HTPC hardware

[brad]

On Wed, 2003-11-26, kurt at verruckt.org wrote:
> I only say that because the Western Digital Raptors, are only 37gb in size.
> If you are comparing to 80gb drives, to 37's, well, thats obvious. Though
> they are by far the fastest ones out right now. I was just saying, two 40gb
> ide drives vs two 37gb sata raptors, theres no contest. :)   Western Digital
> is supposedly going to release a new sata drive this fall (Nov/Dec), that is
> around 80gb in size, and the same performance as the 37gb Raptor. I just
> havent seen it yet. Im not an expert on raid, but raid 0 is the fastest,
> splitting data across two drives (no mirroring or duplexing), raid 1 is
> mirroring (basically a full copy on another disk), raid 5 (mirroriing with
> parity?) The main increase would come from the SATA interface, being that it
> is faster than IDE, and currently also faster in seek times to the 15k SCSI
> drives. Not to mention a WHOLE lot cheaper. Someone correct me if im wrong.
> 
> Kurt

Well, the 10K would be nice, but pricewatch is showing I can get an 80
Gig seagate 7200 sata for $75.  Is there going to be enough performance
difference to justify the cost?  160 Gig for $150 versus 72 Gig for
$210.  I guess have to balance performance and storage space.

Brad